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One Quotes by Mencius
- To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is…
- All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat…
- One who believes all of a book would be better off without books
- The fruit of humanity is devotion to one's parents. The fruit of righteousness is to respect one's elders. The fruit of wisdom is to understand…
- By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
- Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
- When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
- To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
- Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to…
- It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
- The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.
- Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
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- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle